Word: slowness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Down the street at the Red Bull, manager Jamie Burgess prepares to close up shop after a slow day. In the past year, three Crawford souvenir shops shut down for good. "We were the first ones to open and the last ones standing," she says with a laugh. For her, the Bush years were a worthwhile experience. "Before, when people came to Crawford, it was for [high school] athletic events, they were kin to someone or were just lost," she says. "Now I have met people from all over the world." And while some came in anger, she says...
...like DRM and made music lovers’ lives generally miserable—all in the name of making money off a relatively recent physical commodity that people have come to believe they need to pay for. As upon their first encounters with radio, the music industry has been slow to recognize the beauty of file sharing. They should embrace music’s performative origins and let go of selling the physical artifact once and for all. There is a lot more money in concerts these days, even for those who can sell albums. Consider the downloaded single...
...crafted version of Britney Spears’ “...Baby One More Time.” Taking the stage last was Start, Go!, who also put out a fairly tight performance with their brand of Dashboard Confessional rock. General pop-punk gave way to one or two good slow burners. The five song set was highlighted by their new track “Cut Like a Knife” which showed a lot of promise, but a between-song MySpace plug seemed to turn off a few crowd members. It wasn’t really clear which...
...added that winter and spring are traditionally slow times for building and the city is hopeful that projects will pick up over the summer...
...through the thin veneer of stability defining their existence. It impresses upon the audience that, despite its ugliness, this is the only life these characters are offered. The movie is not without its faults. The pacing of the film is slightly tedious, as its tangled subplots can be somewhat slow at times. And because it deals with a highly specific language and setting, the film may be less comprehensible as an international release. One fact of which foreign audiences may not be aware is that most of the movie’s dialogue is in Neapolitan, not Italian. Less...